Nabhyalavalaromalilatapalakuchadvayi (नाभ्यालवालरोमलिलताफलकुचद्वयी, IAST: Nābhyālavālaromālīlatāphalakucadvayī) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She with a navel-basin from which a creeper of fine hair bears fruit in twin breasts”. Nābhi (navel) as ālavāla (a circular basin for watering a tree), romāli (a line of fine hair), latā (creeper), and phala (fruit) form an exquisite botanical metaphor in which the Goddess's body is itself a sacred garden.

Meaning, etymology & significance

In Sanskrit poetics the ālavāla is the small circular earthen hollow kept around a tree trunk to hold water; here the deep navel of the Goddess is that nurturing basin. From it rises the romāli, a tender vine of soft hair ascending the abdomen, which then blossoms into the twin breasts — the fruits of this divine creeper. This imagery belongs to a long tradition of describing the Goddess's form through nature metaphors, honouring the body as a living cosmic landscape.

Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī alone bears this extraordinarily precise and poetic bodily epithet; it is worshipped as a sacred name in the Lalitā Sahasranāma tradition. Because of its compound descriptive nature it is not suitable as a given name, though Romālī or Latāphala could inspire simpler devotional names.

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Scriptural source

Nabhyalavalaromalilatapalakuchadvayi appears in the Lalitha Sahasranama, among the sacred names of Lalitha.

Astrology — nakshatra, rashi & numerology

By the standard Vedic correspondence between a name’s first syllable and the lunar mansion, Nabhyalavalaromalilatapalakuchadvayi aligns with the Ardra nakshatra, under the Mithuna rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 1.